NBA 1973-74Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets129–119Los Angeles Lakers

Houston Rockets at Los Angeles Lakers

Date: Tuesday 12 February 1974
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1973-74Regular season
Meeting: 42nd meetingof 285 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	PF	PTS
Mike Newlin	10–22	10–11	2	3	5	8	3	4	30
Rudy Tomjanovich	11–19	5–5	3	3	6	3	4	4	27
Calvin Murphy	9–17	7–8	1	5	6	6	1	5	25
Cliff Meely	9–14	0–2	0	7	7	0	0	3	18
Zaid Abdul-Aziz	5–11	6–7	6	9	15	1	0	3	16
Kevin Kunnert	3–3	2–2	0	3	3	0	0	1	8
Dave Wohl	2–3	1–2	0	0	0	4	0	6	5
E.C. Coleman	0–2	0–0	3	3	6	6	1	3	0
Ed Ratleff	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0
Team totals	49–91	31–37	15	34	49	29	9	29	129

Los Angeles Lakers

Los Angeles Lakers box score
Player	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	PF	PTS
Jim Price	12–24	4–6	1	2	3	4	4	5	28
Happy Hairston	8–9	9–9	8	14	22	4	3	4	25
Gail Goodrich	5–21	6–7	1	1	2	4	2	5	16
Elmore Smith	6–13	1–1	6	5	11	3	1	5	13
Pat Riley	6–9	0–0	2	0	2	2	0	5	12
Connie Hawkins	4–16	2–2	7	1	8	3	1	2	10
Kermit Washington	2–3	4–7	2	0	2	2	1	1	8
Stan Love	2–6	1–1	0	2	2	1	0	4	5
Bill Bridges	1–5	0–0	2	0	2	1	1	1	2
Nate Hawthorne	0–2	0–2	2	1	3	2	0	0	0
Team totals	46–108	27–35	31	26	57	26	13	32	119

This season

Los Angeles Lakers 2, Houston Rockets 2 in NBA 1973-74.

23 Oct 1973Los Angeles Lakers 107–98 Houston Rockets
4 Nov 1973Houston Rockets 93–106 Los Angeles Lakers
5 Feb 1974Los Angeles Lakers 112–116 Houston Rockets
12 Feb 1974129–119 this game

Records going in

Houston Rockets: 22–38
Los Angeles Lakers: 31–26

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Los Angeles Lakers 179, Houston Rockets 106.

5 Feb 1974Los Angeles Lakers 112–116 Houston Rockets
22 Nov 1974Houston Rockets 83–89 Los Angeles Lakers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.